Edwin E. Witte Papers, 1903-1970

Container Title
Subseries: Industrial Relations
Industrial Education
Box   119
Apprenticeship
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   119
General
Box   119
Labor (worker's) education
Box   119
Trade schools, private
Injunctions
Box   120
Damage actions against unions
Box   120
Damage suits against labor unions
Box   120
Federal court injunctions against unions on complaint of employers or public officials
Box   120
Federal injunctions, general
Physical Description: 3 folders 
Injunctions in labor disputes
Box   120
Federal courts, Volume I
Box   121
State court injunctions against unions, Volume I (continued from box 120)
Box   121
Issued against unions at instance of employers or the government, Volume II
Box   121
Other than actions by employers
Box   121
State courts, actions against labor unions at the instance of employer or government in which no injunctions were issued
Box   122
State courts, injunctions after 1950
Box   122
Wisconsin injunctions
Labor History
Box   122
American Federation of Labor
Box   122
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Box   122
Industrial democracy
Box   122
International trade unionism
Box   122
Labor movement in theory
Box   123
Labor union finances and dues
Box   123
Labor unions and industrial peace
Box   123
Labor unity, AFL-CIO
Box   123
Politics of trade unionism
Box   123
Structure: craft vs. industrial, jurisdictional disputes
Trade unionism
Box   123
Early history
Box   124
In the New Deal period
Box   124
In World War II (in U.S.)
Box   124
Pro and con
Box   125
Value to employers
Box   125
Union practices
Box   125
Union responsibility to public
Box   125
Various unions
Box   125
White collar employees
Box   125
Wisconsin's labor movement
Labor in Politics
Box   126
Earliest period to 1890
Box   126
1890-1905
Box   126
1905-1919
Box   126
1919-1932
Box   126
1933-1942
Box   127
1943-1947
Box   127
1947-circa 1951
Box   127
1952 campaign
Box   127
1952-1960
Box   128
Foreign labor parties
Box   128
General
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   128
Lobbying, legislative activities
Box   128
Maps showing voting of Union Labor Party, 1880s
Box   128
Miscellaneous topics
Box   128
Unions and the Taft-Hartley Act
Labor Law
Anti-trust cases against unions and leaders
Box   129
General
Box   129
After 1836
Box   129
Enforcement
Box   129
Martial law, and the law on strikes
Box   129
Norris-LaGuardia anti-injunction laws
Box   130
Picketing
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Policy questions
Box   130
Regarding industrial relations
Box   130
Regarding regulation of internal union affairs
Box   130
Regarding restrictions on unions
Box   130
Regarding right to strike and limitations
Box   131
Regarding union incorporation and responsibility, suability of unions
Box   131
Regarding union relations to their members, intra-union rows
Box   131
Regarding union responsibility under trade agreements--no strike provisions
Box   131
Public emergencies caused by strikes (other then public utility strikes)
Box   131
Public employees and unionism
Box   132
Public employment, collective bargaining adjustment grievances
Box   132
Property rights involved in labor cases
Box   132
Summaries of current law
Box   132
Statutes concerning labor combinations
Box   132
Working papers for “Labor and the Law”
Box   132
“Yellow Dog” contracts
Labor Legislation
Box   133
Administration
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   133
Administration, U.S. Department of Labor
Box   133
Anti-injunction legislation before 1930
Box   133
Anti-injunction legislation after 1930
Box   134
Book, proposed chapters
Child labor
Box   134
Federal legislation
Box   134
In agriculture
Box   134
In wartime
Box   134
Laws, state and foreign
Box   135
Need for restriction
Box   135
Street trades
Box   135
Treble compensation
Box   135
Employment contract
Box   135
Fair employment practices legislation
Fair Labor Standards Act
Box   136
History
Box   136
1935 proposals for changes
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   137
Farmers and protective labor legislation
Box   137
Federal anti-injunction bill, 1928
Box   137
Foreign countries, general; United Nations, Economic and Social Council
Box   137
General
Box   138
History, proponents and opponents
Box   138
Hobbs Anti-Racketeering Act, 1946
Box   138
Home work and sweat shop labor
Hours
Box   138
Studies of problems
Box   138
Women's hours legislation
Box   139
Immigration and naturalization
Box   139
In foreign countries
Box   139
Injunction bills in Congress, 1895-1932
Note: Witte wrote on the original folder, “Important.”
Box   139
International action on labor legislation, particularly the I.L.O.
Labor in wartime
Box   139
Foreign countries
Box   140
Hours
Box   140
Labor legislation in Wisconsin
Box   140
Labor relations, development, 1947-1948
Labor relations, legislation
Box   140
Legal cases arising under restrictive state laws
Box   140
Positions of different groups and discussion of problems, 1947
Box   140
Landrum-Griffin Act, 1959
Box   140
Lea Act, 1946 (anti-Petrillo bill)
Box   140
Legal aid
Box   140
Legal basis, effects
Box   141
Men's hours, legislation (including movement for the 8-hour day)
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   141
Migratory workers, problems of
Box   141
National Labor Relations Act, first NLRB, 1931 May-1935 July
Box   141
National Labor Relations Act, second NLRB, 1935-1936, developments up to Supreme Court decision
National Labor Relations Board
Box   141
“Appropriate bargaining unit” issue
Box   142
Changes proposed, 1937-1941
Box   142
Developments in , 1940-1941 sessions of Congress
Box   142
Evaluation
Box   142
General, 1942
Box   143
Interpretation
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   143
Interpretation of Section 7(a)
Box   143
Legislative proposals terminating in act of , 1935
Box   144
Policy issues
Box   144
Trade agreements
Box   144
Status
Box   144
Union obligations, restrictions, employer interference, collective bargaining
Box   144
New Deal Board, 1931
Box   145
Norris-LaGuardia Act
Box   145
Price and wage controls, 1952
Box   145
Prison labor
Box   145
Public employees, laws regulating
Box   145
Public utilities
Box   145
Public utility strike legislation other than Wisconsin
Box   146
Railroad and maritime labor acts
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   146
Railroad employees, special laws
Box   146
Restrictive legislation, proposals in Congress, 1945-1947
Box   147
Right to work laws
Safety and sanitation
Box   147
Coal mines
Box   147
General
Safety
Box   147
Application of safety laws
Box   148
Employment prohibited to women
Box   148
Fire prevention
Box   148
Industrial diseases
Box   148
Safety laws and their administration
Box   148
Seamen's labor laws
Box   148
Standards
States
Box   148
Hours of labor for men
Box   149
Labor relations
Box   149
Safety and sanitation legislation
Box   149
Summaries of legislation
Taft-Hartley Act
Box   149
Analysis
Box   149
Appraisal and operation of the law
Box   150
Boycotts
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   150
Coal industry disputes after T-H Act
Box   150
Collective bargaining
Box   151
Communist affidavit requirements
Box   151
Company union cases and favoritism
Box   151
Congressional Labor-Management Committee, 1947-1952
Box   151
Damage suits
Box   151
Developments affecting T-H after passage, 1947 July
Box   151
Discrimination against union members
Box   151
Effects on employees
Box   152
Emergency strikes (exclusive of coal)
Box   152
Employers, rights of free speech before and after T-H
Box   152
Featherbedding
Box   152
Health, welfare, and pension plans
Box   152
Injunctions
Box   152
Interpretations and forecasts of effects
Box   152
Jurisdictional disputes
Box   153
Labor developments subsequent to passage of the Act but not directly related to it
Box   153
McClellan investigations. Labor scandals, 1957
Box   153
Miscellaneous specific provisions of the T-H Act, and their effects
Box   153
NLRB jurisdiction under T-H
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   153-154
NLRB under T-H Act
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   154
Picketing
Box   154
Procedural issues
Box   154
Proposals for changes
Box   154
Representation questions under T-H
Note: Includes craft severance.
Box   154
State-federal relations under T-H
Box   155
Strikes after passage of the Act, 1947
Box   155
Strikes--legal questions
Box   155
Supervisory employees and plant guards
Box   155
Union coercion, violence, et cetera
Box   155
Union reaction and policies after passage of the T-H Act
Box   156
80th Congress, proposals for changes
Physical Description: 4 folders 
Box   156
81st Congress, proposals for changes
Box   157
83rd Congress, proposals for changes
Box   157
83rd and 84th Congresses, labor relations legislation
Box   157
85th Congress, labor relations legislation
Box   157
86th Congress, proposals for changes
Box   157
Theory
Box   157
Union labor, preference to
Box   157
Union regulation in labor disputes
Wages
Box   158
Minimum wages, effects and arguments
Box   158
Minimum wages, general
Box   158
Minimum wage legislation for minors, apprenticeship
Box   158
Minimum wage legislation, methods of administration
Box   158
Minimum wage legislation, U.S., general
Box   158-159
Minimum wage scale and minimum wage movement in the U.S.
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   159
Public Contracts Act, prevailing wage
Box   159
Regulation for men
Note: Existing legislation--foreign and American.
Box   159
Wage payment and collection laws
Box   159
Women's Equal Rights Amendment, equal pay for equal work laws
Box   159
Women's hours of labor, flexible
Box   159
Women's hours of labor and wages
Note: Wisconsin pea canneries.
Box   160
Women's wages
Box   160
Women's work in industry, general
Box   160
Wisconsin “employment peace act,” data on operation of the law
Box   160
Wisconsin “employment peace act,” 1939
Box   160
Wisconsin labor relations, changes in the law after 1939, and proposed changes
Labor-Management Relations
Box   161
Changes in labor conditions
Box   161
Conference, 1945 December
Box   161
Cooperation
Box   161
Developments and trends
Box   162
Employer associations
Box   162
Employer ideas and policies
Box   162
Employers and collective bargaining
Box   162
Essentials for satisfactory relations
Box   163
Management rights as an issue in collective bargaining
Box   163
Personnel management
Box   163
Psychology
Box   163
Sociologists approach
Box   163
Welfare
Labor Problems
Box   164
Arbitration
Physical Description: 3 folders 
Box   164
Compulsory
Box   164
General
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Arbitration
Box   165
Handling by state boards
Box   165
History of
Box   165
Issues, notes on decisions
Box   165
Municipal labor boards
Box   165
U.S. Conciliation Service to 1947, and Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service after 1947
Box   165
Its influences on guaranteed wages and social changes
Box   166
Automation, its influence on guaranteed wages and social changes
Box   166
Boycotts
Box   166
Collective bargaining
Box   166
General
Box   167
History, theory, legal nature
Box   167
Industry-wide bargaining
Box   167
In operation, appraisals
Box   167
In particular industries
Box   167
“Portal to Portal” pay, travel time, clothes changing
Box   168
Productivity
Box   168
Contracts, modification and extension
Box   168
Disputes in Wisconsin
Box   168
Disputes, public policy
Box   168
Employment market
Box   168-169
Employment of older people
Physical Description: 3 folders 
Employment offices
Box   169
Private
Box   169
Public
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   169
Employment planning by government
Box   170
Employment relations in Wisconsin
Box   170
Employment services in foreign countries
Box   170
Employment statistics
Box   170
Fringe benefits
Box   171
General
Box   171
Government labor relation policies
Grievance adjustments
Box   171
Including arbitration, NWLB
Box   171
Machinery in trade agreements
Box   172
Guaranteed wages and employment
Physical Description: 3 folders 
Guaranteed wages and employment
Box   173
Actual plans
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   173
Including severance and dismissal pay
Box   173
Insurance
Box   173
Hours
Housing
Box   173
Foreign countries
Box   174
U.S.
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   174
Independent company unions, employee representation
Box   174
Independent company unions under NIRA (1 and 2)
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   175
Industrial spying and private detective agencies
Box   175
Injunctions in labor disputes
Box   175
Labor statistics
Box   176
Labor unionism, general
Box   176
Methods of coping with unemployment
Box   176
Picketing
Box   176
Productivity, problems and trends
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   177
Profit-sharing
Box   177
Public employee, rights as an employee
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   177
Racketeering
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   178
Seniority
Box   178
Stabilization of employment
Strikes
Box   178
General aspects
Box   178
Their social significance
Box   178
Employment of strikebreakers
Box   178
Sit-down and other anti-social strikes
Box   178-179
Statistics
Box   179
Unemployment before World War II
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   179
Unemployment during and after World War I
Box   180
Unionization of foremen
Box   180
Violence in disputes
Box   180
Wage issues, labor and employee positions
Box   180
Wage statistics
Box   181
Wage theories
Physical Description: 3 folders 
Box   182
Wages, union policies
Labor Relations in Foreign Countries
Box   182
Australia and New Zealand
Box   182
Canada
Box   182
Hawaii
Box   183
General
Box   183
Great Britain
Box   183
Labor law (except British, Canadian, Australian)
Box   184
Latin America
Box   184
Occupied countries after World War II
Box   184
Post World War II
Note: Other than occupied countries.
Box   184
Scandinavian
Box   184
Soviet Union
Box   184
Western Germany
Labor Relations in Postwar Period
Box   185
Disputes, adjustments after V-J Day
Box   185
Disputes, fact-finding boards, 1945-1946
Box   185
General
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   185
Policy discussions, 1945 August-1946 December
Box   186
Strikes: coal strike, 1947 July
Wage controls
Box   186
Controversies and agreements
Box   186
Government action
Box   186
Policies and discussions prior to V-J Day
Box   186
Policies and discussions following V-J Day
Labor Relations in Wartime
Box   187
General
Korean War
Defense Production Act
Box   187
1950
Box   187
1951
Box   187
Inflation situation
Box   187
Labor disputes, 1950-1952
Box   187
Labor disputes and WSB action
Box   187
Labor in defense effort, 1950-1951
Box   187
Price stabilization
Box   188
Steel disputes and strike, 1951
Box   188
Reconstituted Wage Stabilization Board
Box   188
Wage stabilization and first Wage Stabilization Board
Box   189
Wage Stabilization Board -- orders and interpreters
Box   189
Wage Stabilization Committee, 1952 December-1953 March
Box   189
War mobilization -- manpower problems, 1950
Box   189
War mobilization plans, circa 1950
Box   190
Meat packing industry, Chicago
NWLB
Box   190
And independent unions
Box   190
Disputes cases
Box   190
Jurisdiction
Box   190
Policy of strikes and threatened strikes
Box   190
Representation and recognition
Box   191
Railway labor
Box   191
World War I
World War II
Box   191
Adjustments of labor disputes
Box   191
General
Box   191
Labor problems before Congress previous to Smith-Connally Act
Box   191
Mediation
Box   191
National defense, 1940
Box   192
Mediation proposals, 1940-1941
Box   192
Right to strike, restrictions after Pearl Harbor
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   192
Smith-Connally Act
Box   193
Strikes and near strikes
Box   193
Strikes subsequent to Smith-Connally Act
Box   193
Wage problems
Labor Union Policy Issues
Box   193-194
Communism in the unions
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   194
Disputes between unions
Box   194
Farmers, attitudes
Box   194
Labor's support of education
Box   195
Monopoly and the unions
State Labor Relations
Box   195
Labor union policy issues -- monopoly and unions, non-legal aspects
Box   195
Legislative proposals, 1946-1947
Box   195
“Little Wagner” acts
Box   195-196
Restrictive acts by states
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   196
Wisconsin Labor Relations Act, 1936-1939
Union Security
Box   196-197
After passage of Taft-Hartley Act (other than NLRB and court cases)
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   197
As an issue before NWLB
Box   198
Cases before NWLB
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Box   198
Check-off of union dues
Box   198
Closed shop and open shop issues